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TIL the man who voiced Tigger from "Winnie the Pooh" was the first to invent an artificial heart

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BgMDr TIL of the Declaration of Arbroath (6 April 1320), the Scottish Declaration of Independence, sent to the Pope in support of Robert the Bruce
lowX5 TIL of the Cradle to Cradle system of design, where all elements used in production can either be returned to their natural environment, or reused continuously, in an essentially waste-free system.
jNN0n TIL a director of the movie 'Airplane!' spent $60,000 on 3 horses over ~4 years for a joke; "All Pink", "Ol Pink", and "Awl Pink". He instructed the jockey not to win, but to run as close to the inside rail as possible so the track announcer would have to call "...and it's All Pink on the inside!"
nVoP TIL that when Napoleon emancipated the Jews he stated that “I will never accept any proposals that will obligate the Jewish people to leave France, because to me the Jews are the same as any other citizen in our country”
0wGVj TIL that Michael Jordan took home economics in high school to learn to cook because he was worried his big ears would make it hard to find a woman who would want to marry him.